Seattle cartoonist: May 22 is ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’, page 12

Freedom of speech....Censorship.....

Where do my rights end and yours begin?

Ya know i have posted on other threads about this topic and i even started my own thread which bombed regarding the whole cartoonist thing. I was of the opinion that freedom of speech was one of the most important freedoms we have in this country and worth fighting for no matter what the cause was. I have since changed my mind about that. Yes freedom of speech is worth fighting for and dying for if need be. This is not one of those cases in my opinion. The freedoms we enjoy as human beings are freedoms we have from birth and not something someone gave us and equally has the right to take away. If someone tries to take away your freedom the only way he/she may succeed is if you let them. Yes you may have to fight to prevent someone from trying to take away your freedoms but such is the price of being free. Blood sometimes has to spilled. As the saying goes "freedom is free". Someone had to pay for it.

Yes there are people in this world who would want to tell you you cannot do this or cannot do that. So in response we have to show them we CAN do this or CAN do that. What i think is so odd about all this is that as americans we have become rather used to the fact that we will give up our rights to certain things when a group yells foul or that they are offended. Just look at the whole debate about nativitys at christmas. The wearing of religious symbols at work and many other types of situations where one group was forced to alter what they do in favor of another group who was offended. So why is it so bad that we should defer our right to say what we want or draw what we want to prevent this group from being offended. I mean yes i am willing to fight and die or kill if i have to in order to prevent any group or government from taking over my basic rights as a human being and threatening death if i dont comply. This is not the case here. This is a simple case of if you piss the wrong person off your going to get your butt whooped.
Heres where i get a laugh at all this. These people who have the big brass bells to draw mohammed in defiance of those muslim extremists are also pissing off alot of non extremists and showing to them that the extremists may be right, So where i laugh is that more than likely all of these so called brave ones would not have the brass bells to go into a biker bar and draw pictures of bikers looking like dorks on motorcycles, or go to any gangbangers and make ethnic jokes to them just to show they can because we gots us some freedom of speech. Lets get real here for a second. All of these people trying to stand up for the freedom of speech are doing just the opposite. They are standing behind the freedom of speech thing like a shield so they can have an excuse to piss on a group that has made itself a target. Our enemy.

Oh and dont for a second think that islamism isnt our enemy. It is folks. It has declared itself the enemy of america and any way of life not like itself. I am not speaking of islam. Islamism is the militant extremist for of islam. Personally i think its just a matter of time and nothing but space and opportunity between us and them before the powder keg ignites and a full out war between the islamic world and the US and our allies begins. It is pretty much inevitable because we are two completely opposing ways of life and both are seeking dominance over the other. Just my opinion and i know i dont know jack but i fear history will repeat itself in the near future with christiany vs islam in the form of Capitalist americanism vs islamism.

Personally i am taking the stance now that i have my freedoms and no muslim has taken that away from me. If i choose to draw anything about any group who has the power to kick my rear end and send me 6 feet down in a pine box, then i probobly had it coming. no matter if that group be a gang of bikers or street gang or muslim extremists or any other violent ass kicking band of social misfits.

Stop pissing people off who you know you cant fight and seriously arent willing to.